parse

Rather than
foreach acefile (`ls $ACEDB/rawdata/*.ace`)
tace <<DONE
parse $acefile
DONE
a much faster shell is
touch /tmp/toto
foreach acefile (`ls $ACEDB/rawdata/*.ace`)
echo parse $acefile >> toto
end
tace $ACEDB < /tmp/toto
\rm /tmp/toto
the reason is that in the later case you open tace and save only once
i will add a command to run tace commanss off a file of commnds from
the interface